Our meeting on Thursday 31st October was the last of our Showtime meetings for this year, it was handled by Keith Brown, once a number was given to each person for each item being shown, Keith then picked out a number at random for who was up first and to follow. Most had single entries but there were a few that had more than one entry and we do like to encourage the members to enter more than one item.
Continue reading “Report on our meeting 31-10-2024, Showtime.”Our next meeting, 31-10-2024 The last of our Showtime meetings for 2024, organized by Keith Brown.
Our next meeting is on Thursday 31st October 2024.
Start Time. 6-45pm.
The Showtime meeting are usually very well received and participation is always very good, we hope this meeting will be no different. For those new to the club we invite you all to bring in anything that you have made that you are pleased with or have a story to tell about any item, it can even be something that has gone wrong that you would like to know if it can be salvaged and why it went wrong in the first place. Keith will call you out when it’s your turn to show your item or items, and yes you can bring more than one item to show, in fact, more the merrier.
Continue reading “Our next meeting, 31-10-2024 The last of our Showtime meetings for 2024, organized by Keith Brown.”Report on our latest training evening.
Our latest training evening was on Thursday 24th October 2024.
The programme was arranged by Nick Simpson our training organizer, all 5 lathes were in use with 5 pupils along with 5 tutors, Nick on this occasion was to be our safety observer. The session went very well with all the pupils making headway in their turnings, we did have a couple of very small reminders in regards to safety, something that is taken very seriously at the club, it just gave us a reminder not to be complacent.
Continue reading “Report on our latest training evening.”EGM minutes now available
Minutes from the EGM on 17th October 2024, and the new constitution can be found here
Report on our EGM (Extra General Meeting) 17-10-2024.
Our latest meeting held on the 17th October 2024 was an EGM (Extra General Meeting). It was called by the club Committee to discuss and decide upon our club becoming a charity. Some weeks earlier our secretary Geoff Potter put in a request to the organizing body to become a SCIO, this was approved and we were given a charity number of SC053651. This was all subject to the members accepting the change in our status.
Continue reading “Report on our EGM (Extra General Meeting) 17-10-2024.”Our next meeting on 17-10-2024. An EGM (Extra General Meeting.
Start time 7.00pm.
This meeting has been called by your committee to discuss and vote on the proposed change to our club by becoming a charity. This change to a charity has certain advantages for the club which will all be explained at the meeting. If approved there will be a new constitution which we have already posted on our web site, it’s largely similar in structure but goes into much more detail, do take a look.
Continue reading “Our next meeting on 17-10-2024. An EGM (Extra General Meeting.”Another of our training days, 10-10-2024.
Our latest training day was on Thursday 10th October 2024, organized by our training co-ordinator Nick Simpson. There were 5 pupils along with 5 tutors and one safety observer, most were on their 2nd or 3rd training sessions apart from Lynn Holmes who was having her first lesson.
Continue reading “Another of our training days, 10-10-2024.”Proposed SCIO constitution and new minutes added
The new SCIO constitution and last meeting of the committee are both in the Club Documents section
Report on our meeting 03-10-2024 organized by Nick Simpson and Dave Line.
Our meeting on Thursday 3rd October 2024 was the last of our Shield Competitions for this year, it was organized by Nick Simpson and Rocking Bowls was the theme for this Competition. The Novice and Intermediate groups were required to make just one Rocking Bowl, the Open group had to make a matching pair of Rocking Bowls.
Continue reading “Report on our meeting 03-10-2024 organized by Nick Simpson and Dave Line.”Our next meeting, 03-10-2024 organized by Nick Simpson and Dave Line.
Our next meeting is on Thursday 3rd October 2024 and it’s our last of our shield Competitions for this year. This competition is all about Rocking Bowls in all 3 categories, the Novice and the Intermediate categories have to make a single Rocking Bowl, the Open category have to make a matching pair of Rocking Bowls, they can be any size as long as they have a rounded base.
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